Word: roma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad pomp-and-circumstantial Trojan March, first heard with ironic overtones as the Trojans, tired of Cassandra's doom-singing, drag the horse into the city; then brassily as they arrive at Carthage; and again with a touch of moody irony as they board the ships for "Roma, Roma, city eternal...
...spiritual danger of going steady is spelled out in some detail by Free-Lance Writer Roma Rudd Turkel in Information, a monthly publication of the Paulist Fathers. The church, she writes, "knows that it is impossible (not improbable but impossible) for a boy and a girl to be alone together in an intimate and exclusive companionship for any length of time without serious sin. And she has seen the tragic pattern shaping up Saturday night after Saturday night in parish churches across the country; these boys and girls start making bad confessions, then no confessions, followed by no sacraments...
...laid off. Carlo Faina, who headed Catini's Rome office, started out to rebuild the company. A cheery aristocrat who differs from Donegani in every respect except drive, he is the scion of a line that once ruled a large slice of Italy (said a medieval couplet: "From Roma to Perugia, it's all Faina"). After World War I. in which he got three decorations and was seriously wounded, he was hired through an ad by Donegani as his assistant...
...ship's mood as she neared the U.S. was fog-free and gay. A movie (Foxfire) was running in one of Andrea Doria's four theaters; in the plush, boat deck Belvedere lounge, dancers swayed to the rhythms of an eight-piece orchestra. Their last song: Arrivederci, Roma. In the cardrooms, bridge foursomes pondered hands. On deck late strollers tasted the mist and sniffed for land smells. Below, passageways were lined with baggage already packed and prepared for customs. Some passengers had retired early, and were already lulled to sleep by the soothing roll and the sea sounds...
Nicos Vernicos, 34, scion of an old Mediterranean shipping family, was named president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic passenger carriers (Italia, Atlantic, Homeric, Roma, Nassau, Homeland). Vernicos was picked and trained for the job by his shrewd bachelor godfather, Eugen Eugenides, who was boss of the line till his death last April. Vernicos was born in Sifnos, Greece, educated at the University of London, worked for Swedish State Railways and S.K.F. before joining the Home Lines...